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CA Capacity Management Capacity Manager r5.1.2: Foundations 200

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CA Capacity Management Virtual Placement Manager r2.3: Foundations 200

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Exam Objectives Related Content Exam FocusUnderstanding the Basic Features of CA Capacity Management

22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Describe the Basic Features of CA Capacity Management

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Understanding CA Data Manager 22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Describe CA Data Manager

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Understanding CA CCC 22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev 3 Describe CA CCC

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Installing CA Data Manager and CA CCC 22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Install CA Data Manager and CA CCC

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Configuring Data Adapters for CA Data Manager

22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Configure Data Adapters for CA Data Manager Reference Guides and Field Experience Manipulate Data for Generic CSV

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Loading and Migrating Data Using CA Data Manager

22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Load and Migrate Data Using CA Data Manager Reference Guides and Field Experience Check the Status of Loads Check Log Files for Errors or Warnings Identify Guidelines for Initial Data Loading Purge Data

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Understanding CA CCR 22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Describe CA CCR

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Installing CA CCR 22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Install CA CCR

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Creating CA CCR Reports 22CCM20021 CA Capacity Management Current State Reporting: Installation, Configuration, Administration 200, Rev. 3 Create CA CCR Reports

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Understanding CA Capacity Manager Reference Guides and Field Experience Describe CA Capacity Manager

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Performing a CA Capacity Manager Installation

22CCM20031 CA Capacity Management Capacity Manager r5.1.2: Foundations 200 Perform a CA Capacity Manager Installation

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Defining the Infrastructure 22CCM20031 CA Capacity Management Capacity Manager r5.1.2: Foundations 200 Define the Infrastructure

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Building the Data Center 22CCM20031 CA Capacity Management Capacity Manager r5.1.2: Foundations 200 Build the Data Center

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Running Scenarios 22CCM20031 CA Capacity Management Capacity Manager r5.1.2: Foundations 200 Run Scenarios

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Upgrading a CA CCC Installation with CA VPM 44CCM20011 CA Capacity Management Virtual Placement Manager r2.3: Foundations 200 Upgrade a CA CCC Installation with CA VPM

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Performing CCC Administration and Resource Score Tasks

44CCM20011 CA Capacity Management Virtual Placement Manager r2.3: Foundations 200 Perform CCC Administration and Resource Score Tasks Reference Guides and Field Experience Resolve ServerConfiguration.xlsx

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Performing Placement and Balancing Tasks 44CCM20011 CA Capacity Management Virtual Placement Manager r2.3: Foundations 200 Perform Placement and Balancing Tasks

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Upgrading Existing Versions of CA Data Manager, CA Capacity Manager, and CA CCR

Reference Guides and Field Experience Upgrade Existing Versions of CA Data Manager, CA Capacity Manager, and CA CCR

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Creating a New Data Adapter for the SDK Reference Guides and Field Experience Create a New Data Adapter from the SDK

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Question 1How does CA Capacity Management normalize data in a heterogeneous environment where some servers are more powerful than others?

A. By representing larger servers as having more than 100% of available capacity and smaller servers as having less than 100% B. By enabling the user to upload a range of benchmarks into the Component Model Library (CML) C. By providing a CML that defines the average processing power of different server types D. By providing a CML that defines the total processing power of different server types

Question 2For CA Capacity Command Center r2.0 and later, to install and configure the Oracle database, which step do you need to perform?

A. Purge data in staging and data mart tables. B. Change the default settings in the Oracle configuration. C. Allocate sufficient space for temporary tablespaces and the undo and redo logs. D. Ensure that the sql plus command line utility is available on the CA Capacity Command Center application server.

Question 3Which data adapters are among those installed with CA Data Manager by default? (Choose two)

A. CA eHealth B. Workload log C. Active Directory D. CA Application Delivery Analysis

Question 4The VMware data adapter gathers performance and configuration data for VMware ESX server hosts and virtual machines (VMs). By default, which type of authentication does the data adapter use to connect to the VMware Virtual Center Server database?

A. SQL Server B. HTTP Digest C. Windows authentication D. Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)

Question 5You can provide generic CSV data to CA Data Manager. When you create the CSV files, which guideline should you follow?

A. Be careful to order the columns in the required format. B. Make sure to use uppercase letters for the column headers. C. Begin comment lines with ## to capture information about the origin of data. D. If you specify Duration and you want the data adapter, to calculate the duration, use AUTO for values.

Question 6Which section of CA Data Manager Administration should you use to add a new data source?

A. Pull Data B. Database Tasks C. Data Source Creator D. Manage Data Sources

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Question 7In CA Data Manager, you have loaded data into the staging area. You now want to make this data available to CA Performance Optimizer. What do you need to do?

A. Migrate it to the data mart. B. Run Advanced Analytics Precalculations. C. Export it as a Performance Monitor output file. D. Configure the Performance Optimizer Data Adapter.

Question 8In CA Data Manager, how do you normally check the status of loads?

A. Open the Load Manager. B. Use the Pull Data function. C. View the Migrate Status Report. D. View the Load Summary Report.

Question 9Before running the precalculation process for the first time, what should you do? (Choose two)

A. Calculate database statistics. B. Set your planning percentile and enabled rollup types. C. Check that the data index space for staging indexes has the option to auto-extend to 30 GB in increments of 250 MB. D. Change the default settings in CA Capacity Command Center to prevent the precalculated data being recalculated each time you change a roll-up type.

Question 10In CA Data Manager, the automatic daily purge job: (Choose two)

A. purges all rolled-up data based on the time specified in the DAILY_PURGE_RUN_HOUR field. B. purges the Resource Score precalculations based on the value specified in the DB_STATS_ESTIMATE_PERCENT field. C. calculates the database statistics for database tables and indexes based on the value specified in the RUN_DB_STATISTICS field. D. purges the data mart fact tables, which contain the metric data, based on the value specified in the NUMBER_DAYS_DATA_RETAINED field.

Question 11To prevent Oracle database-related performance problems, which tasks should you perform? (Choose three)

A. Set tablespace full alerts for 90%. B. Set Tablespace AutoExtend to No. C. Analyze the CA Capacity Command Center schema on a regular basis. D. Monitor tablespace fragmentation for data tablespace and index tablespace. E. Check that automatic segment-space management is operating correctly on temporary tablespaces.

Question 12When you are installing CA Current Capacity Reporter on a 64-bit system:

A. you need to configure both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of open database connectivity (ODBC). B. you need to configure the 64-bit version of ODBC only. C. you need to configure the 32-bit version of ODBC only. D. you do not need to configure ODBC.

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Question 13In CA Capacity Manager, to correctly configure servers, which tasks can you perform? (Choose three)

A. Create tiers. B. Balance workloads. C. Consolidate networks. D. Configure threshold profiles. E. Configure computer hardware.

Question 14In CA Capacity Manager, after you create a new scenario, changes from the previous scenario are shown:

A. in red. B. in bold. C. in italics. D. in yellow highlighting.

Question 15Which statements about CA Capacity Command Center Resource Scores are TRUE? (Choose two)

A. Resource Score data can only be grouped by VMware clusters. B. The Resource Score at the group level is aggregated up from the underlying hosts. C. Resource Score viewers can drill down into the grouped reports to view more granular data. D. Resource Score data can only be reported if it is measured directly from the data collection agents.

Question 16Which information does a ‘Server Capacity Consumption – Group Interval’ chart display? (Choose two)

A. Resource Score B. Re-sized clusters C. Planning Percentile D. Under (<20%) utilization category

Question 17In CA Virtual Placement Manager, after you perform a placement exercise, what is the FIRST action you should take?

A. Use CA Visualizer to review the results. B. Use the Placement Replay tab to review the results. C. Check the Violations report to see if any thresholds have been breached. D. Copy and paste the Placement Table into an email to send to the VMware administrator.

Question 18If the upgrade of the CA Capacity Command Center/CA Data Manager database fails, which script can you run?

A. ccc-migrate.bat B. dm-migrate.bat C. ccc-upgrade-db.bat D. upgrade-ccc-db.bat

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Question 19During the CA Capacity Command Center 2.0.1 install procedure, a page appears asking you if you are upgrading from CA Capacity Command Center or CA Virtual Placement Manager 1.0x. If you click Yes, to merge your existing schema with the updated schema, which file do you need to browse to?

A. web.xml B. ccc.propertiesC. install-ccc-db.bat D. hyp_dm_groups.xml

Question 20To update an existing CA Current Capacity Reporter installation, you download the update .zip file. During the update procedure, what happens when you run the load_changes.bat file? (Choose two)

A. New CA Current Capacity Reporter files are automatically added. B. Unnecessary CA NetQoS Performance Center reports are removed. C. A new configuration.xml file is added to the \NETQOS\portal\integration\DataManagerdirectory. D. Data source name (DSN) settings in the Configuration.xml file are updated to reflect those of the CA Data Manager instance to be used.

Question 21You recently updated CA Current Capacity Reporter. You discover that users sometimes fail to allow report views to complete, which can result in a backlog of uncompleted SQL processes. To address this issue, you need to enable queries to time out. Where do you set this functionality?

A. ccr.propertiesB. Configuration.xml C. Administration user interface D. Oracle ODBC Driver Configuration dialog

Question 22Which file type or structure will a custom CSV data adapter extract data from?

A. A database such as Oracle B. A specific type of CSV file created by the Generic CSV File Data Adapter C. An XML file containing data that can easily be converted to the CSV format D. A correctly configured flat CSV file with the correct timestamp information and structure

Question 23Which macro refers to the group selected in the CA Current Capacity Reporter GUI?

A. {GroupID} B. {Group_id} C. {CCR_GROUP} D. {CCR_GROUP_ID}

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